How Silicon Valley's hottest startup plans to kill the hard drive once and for all.

SpunkyTWS
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2013-09-24T18:13:11Z —
#6

While they may have good reasons for removing the original article--such as not wanting to risk someone missing the correction--such a removal always strikes me as "We did something stupid, now we're trying to cover it up". It's great that they've taken responsibility and posted a correction, but, in the digital format, it doesn't seem like it would be hard to correct the article itself. And they could add a "We regret the earlier error" at the end.

Call me nitpicky but I remember several years ago when Elsevier was caught deleting articles from some of its electronic archives. They had good reasons--some of the articles were plagiarized, for instance--but these were digital copies of the print publications, and there was no explanation why, when a patron would click on an article title in the table of contents, they'd get "404 not found". It took a court order to stop them. It was a solemn reminder of how tempting it must be for some publishers to rewrite history.

TheRealMe
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2013-09-24T18:13:30Z —
#7

Given the UK's libel laws I don't know if the newspaper made an error, or if the person in question really is or was a prostitute at one time, but they paper isn't willing to press the point.

IMB
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2013-09-24T18:40:47Z —
#8

It was hilarious.

marilove
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2013-09-24T18:42:33Z —
#9

It was better the first time around. NIPPLES.

Trisaneldritch
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2013-09-24T19:38:32Z —
#10

Oh come on man, in the case of Mr Horsley, it was a pretty forgivable mistake to make:

AshleyYakeley
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2013-09-25T00:29:11Z —
#11

Well that was uncomfortably informative.

Brainspore
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2013-09-25T01:55:59Z —
#12

I was reminded of that uncomfortable conversation from Meet the Parents:

*I* have nipples, Frank. Could you milk me?

TerryBorder1
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2013-09-25T11:08:56Z —
#13

It seems to me that there was an equal chance of her being called a horse.

McGreens
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2013-09-25T13:41:12Z —
#14

Mark Thomas's People's Manifesto had a suggestion that all corrections and retractions be printed at the same size and in the same position as the original story. I thought it was a brilliant idea then and I still do now.

pesco
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2013-09-29T16:46:37Z —
#15

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